Physostoma

No picture of Physostoma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Physostoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PteridospermophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 318.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 11 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 11 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 3 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 4 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335.9 Mya318.7 Mya340.7 Mya298.1 Mya

11 occurrences of Physostoma on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

11 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Physostoma and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Physostoma and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Physostoma, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

4 references

Each of the 11 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Physostoma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Physostoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Physostoma was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPteridospermophyta through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williamson 1876